Masterminds of programming

Biancuzzi, Federico. (Added Author). Warden, Shane. (Added Author).

Summary: "Masterminds of Programming features exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages. In this unique interview collection, you'll learn about the processes that led to specific design decisions, including the goals these pioneers had in mind, the trade-offs they had to make, and how their experiences have made an impact on programming today."--Page 4 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780596515171
ISBN: 0596515170
ISBN: 059680167X
ISBN: 9780596801670
ISBN: 0596555504
ISBN: 9780596555504
ISBN: 0596550944
ISBN: 9780596550943
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 480 pages).
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Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly Media, ©2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from resource description page (Safari, viewed Aug. 20, 2009). Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	C++ / Bjarne Stroustrup -- Python / Guido von Rossum -- APL / Adin D. Falkoff -- Forth / Charles D. Moore -- BASIC / Thomas E. Kurtz -- AWK / Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan -- Lua / Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Roberto Ierusalimschy -- Haskell / Simon Peyton Jones [and others] -- ML / Robin Milner -- SQL / Don Chamberlin -- Objective-C / Brad Cox and Tom Love -- Java / James Gosling -- C♯ / Anders Hejlsberg -- UML / Ivar Jacobson, James Rumbaugh, and Grady Booch -- Perl / Larry Wall -- PostScript / Charles Geschke and John Warnock -- Eiffel / Bertrand Meyer.